Finals Quotes - Page 10

• It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Fate, Humanity

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.62, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• The final heartbeat for the Christian is not the mysterious conclusion to a meaningless existence. It is, rather, the grand beginning to a life that will never end.

  James Dobson

  Christian, Mysterious, Heartbeat

  James Dobson (2000). “Stories of Heart and Home”, p.79, Harper Collins

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• Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Human Life, Planets, Ready

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

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• The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold.

  Catherine Marshall

  Disappointment, Loss, Blessing

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• If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Men, Ideas, Judging

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• If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Moral, Standards, Absolutes

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west”

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• What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world.... Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive very long in America.

  Gore Vidal

  America, What Matters, Long

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• Men and women who refuse to acknowledge God's existence do so, in the final analysis, because it is contrary to their manner of living. They do not want to bow to the moral claims of a holy God on their lives.

  R. C. Sproul

  Men, Analysis, Want

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• The rates of taxation climb and the levels of capital decline, until the only remaining wealth beyond the reach of the regime is the very protein of human flesh, and that too is finally taxed, bound, and gagged, and brought to the colossal temple of the state - a final sacrifice of carnal revenue to feed the declining elite.

  George Gilder

  Sacrifice, Taxation, Levels

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.349, Regnery Publishing

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• A great discipline comes with knowing that everyone's very focused. I've never shot a scene thinking, I wonder if this will make it. Every scene I shoot, I know that it's going to make it into the final cut.

  Jeremy Bolt

  Cutting, Thinking, Knowing

  Source: collider.com

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• Once I caught my dad in front of the TV watching a tennis match, and I realized they were tricking us. Poor guy, he had to sneak in a tennis final - probably the French Open.

  Clemence Poesy

  Dad, Sneak In, Tennis

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Cutting, Directors, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• My theory is that, just like with omitting a final comma in a list when not essential for meaning, publishers are trying to save paper and ink or pixels on-screen.

  Bill Walsh

  Trying, Pixels, Lists

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• ('Mad Men') was my final audition of the pilot season. It had been three miserable, horrible months where I had zero callbacks, zero positive reception, one of those pilot seasons that makes you pretty sure you are never going to be an actor and never want to be an actor. And then that happened.

  Rich Sommer

  Zero, Men, Mad

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• The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.

  R. C. Sproul

  Views, Choices, Decision

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• For unbelievers, at the final judgment, there will not be one drop of mercy, only perfect justice-so much sin, so much wrath.

  Steven J Lawson

  Wrath, Perfect, Justice

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• The gospel is not something partial or piecemeal: it takes in the whole life, the whole of history, the whole world. It tells us about creation and the final judgment and everything in between.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  World, Judgment, Creation

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2016). “Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures”, p.38, Zondervan

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• At the final judgment, everyone will stand before God alone.

  R. C. Sproul

  Judgment

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• The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks, days or moments but in the way we live and how we are seen by those people whose lives we affect.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  People, Dying, Way

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• While profit remains the final goal, entrepreneurs spend the better part of each day figuring out how better to serve the needs of their actual and potential customers. They are operationally, if not intentionally, altruistic.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Goal, Entrepreneur, Needs

  Dinesh D'Souza (2008). “What's So Great about Christianity”, Tyndale House Pub

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• History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.

  Terence McKenna

  Singularity, Series, Approximation

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• Organic planning does not begin with a preconceived goal; it moves from need to need, from opportunity to opportunity, in a series of adaptations that themselves become increasingly coherent and purposeful, so that they generate a complex final design, hardly less unified than a pre-formed geometric pattern.

  Lewis Mumford

  Moving, Opportunity, Goal

  LEWIS MUMFORD (1961). “THE CITY IN HISTORY”

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• I interviewed my dad on video in his final weeks. When I asked about his work and finding meaning through helping others, he responded, "I don't think you can be focused on, 'Oh gee, I want to make a difference.' It has to be spontaneous. If it's not...there's some kind of egotistical thing going on. That's a red flag. You hope you impact people on the deepest level you are capable of at the time. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't. You're trying.

  Lisa Shannon

  Dad, Helping Others, Thinking

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• Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not guilty. All I did was take your gibberish seriously... and you see where it got me? My primitive Christian instincts have made me a criminal.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Christian, Criminals, Hell

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.87, Vintage

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• However, you do need rules. Driving on the left (or the right or, in parts of Europe, on the left and the right as the mood takes you) is a rule which works, since following it means you're more likely to reach your intended rather than your final destination.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Europe, Needs

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